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To: Richard S who wrote (483088)	10/28/2003 11:16:03 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Even Sen. Feinstein Wants to Pass Bush's Plan to Curb Forest Fires Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003 You know that environment-destroying "environmentalists" have gone too far with their deadly anti-human extremism when Sen. Dianne Feinstein is on President Bush's side. Feinstein, D-Calif., urged the Senate last night to pass Bush's Healthy Forests Restoration Act. Democrats, pandering for donations from "Club Sierra" and other wealthy groups of self-styled enviros who are so fanatically anti-logging they'd rather endanger entire forests and those who live nearby, have obstructed the measure. "With the drought, the devastation caused by the bark beetle and the dangerous buildup of dry tinder and undergrowth, I feared that California could face a devastating season of wildfires. Sadly, that seems to be happening now," she said. Blood on Their Hands As the Associated Press noted Monday in reporting on the California forest fires that have killed 15 people so far, "in some places, brush has not been trimmed by fire or man for decades." Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., said, "How many homes must burn, how many people must lose their valuables, how many lives must be threatened before a couple [of] obstructionists in the Senate will relent and let a bipartisan wildfire legislation be debated and considered?" The Washington Times noted today, "Mr. Bush´s initiative expedites action to reduce dead and dying trees, which act as hazardous fuels, on 20 million acres of land deemed at high risk of catastrophic fires." Leftist Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, obstructed the legislation last week, but now a spokesman says "we are allowing it to go forward." "Given the devastating effects, it would be irresponsible not to act on this bill," said Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., voting unsuccessfully today to block EPA nominee Mike Leavitt, said, "Do we really want to return to the days when rivers caught fire and people literally keeled over from air pollution?" He failed to mention the people now keeling over from air pollution caused by the "environmentalist"-abetted fires in California. As NewsMax reported during the West's annual plague of forest fires last year, hypocritical Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle allowed much-needed thinning of forests only in his home state of South Dakota but gave the message that the rest of America can go burn in hell. newsmax.com

To: Richard S who wrote (483088)	10/29/2003 11:03:17 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Kerry was 100% right about Iraq a year ago. See his appearance on Hardball at the Citadel and read what he said to cadets, that it would be better to wait until we had a broad coalition and a pot-invasion plan. No other candidate was saying that prior to the war. Now he gets criticized for "waffling" but his stance now is the same as it was then. And he was 100% right. Being totally against force against Saddam was not the right stance. Doing it SMART and preparing well was.